Wednesday, December 29, 2010

So, I like to make pumpkin pie. My family won't eat it unless it's made from canned pumpkin, butI like it made with fresh pumpkin. It tends to tastea little bit different from canned, but I don't mind that.

Well, this year it turned out terrible. I boiled thepieces of "neck pumpkin" until they were soft, andthen mashed them up and made a pie. (It neversmells very nice while it's boiling. It smells ratherlike squash. LOL)

Anyway. I made a pie that looked and tasted lovely, and lacked the ingredients in normal pie(wheat, sugar) that I can't eat. It tasted great--but it was stringy. Sooo stringy. Gag-reflexstringy.

I had to throw it away. I wasn't even able to eathalf of it. What a waste! It actually had a good flavor.

Maybe if I'd forced the pumpkin pulp througha strainer, I could have gotten all the strings outand it would have turned out perfect....

I've made some plans for next year already, but I'll have to try not to get carried away with it. Making too many plans can become counterproductive for me.

Oh, and in the reading department, I'm enjoying Daily Science Fiction. (http://dailysciencefiction.com/) They send emails every day with a short science fiction or fantasy story. Some days I ignore them, other days I get pulled into reading them. They keep them short and readable, which is nice for a quick break. I'm impressed with the quality of the ones I've read so far.